Untitled from Oregonian News on Vimeo. By SPENCER HEINZ I took a drive the other day to visit my spent fuel rods. Of course, they are not really mine. The power company owns them. Yet all of us ...

Spent fuel rods are placed in a steel canister typically capable of holding 32 fuel assemblies and the lid is welded in place. The canisters weigh up to 40 tons fully loaded.

After most of the fuel has been used, the rods are removed from the reactor and kept in a separate cooling pool nearby. Problems cooling these pools have officials worried that the spent rods ...

The difference is that with the spent fuel rods, it's probably worse. I realize this is a tough time to say worse. I'm not saying it to be upsetting.

As Japan's post-quake nuclear crisis deepens, concerns have been raised about the dangers of spent fuel rods. The Unit 4 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant caught fire earlier Tuesday ...

With approximately 10 spent fuel rods per assembly, that's 960 highly radioactive rods relocated to a safer place, and even the power plant's critics agree that's good news.

During a nuclear reaction, fuel rods generate a tremendous amount of heat. After most of the fuel has been used, the rods are removed from the reactor and kept in a separate cooling pool nearby.

Current nuclear technology only uses 5% of the uranium in fuel rods. Scientists at the DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory have found a new technique for using all the uranium ...

Dr. Know is distilling eggnog. He will return in 2019. Meanwhile, here's a classic question from 2014. Are there still spent fuel rods stored at the site of the former Trojan nuclear plant, or ...